ImportError: No module named win32api while using Scrapy

Question

I am a new learner of Scrapy. I installed python 2.7 and all other engines needed.

Then I tried to build a Scrapy project following the tutorial http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/tutorial.html.

In the crawling step, after I typed scrapy crawl dmoz it generated this error message

ImportError: No module named win32api. [twisted] CRITICAL : Unhandled error in deferred 

I am using Windows.

Stack trace:

I am using Windows.

Answer 1

Try this.

pip install pypiwin32

Answer 2

If you search a bit along the internet you will find the following documentation which describes what you have to do to install Py32Win: http://www.feedbackward.com/content/scrapy_install.pdf

Here are all the steps described you have to do. I did it with this document and now my Scrapy installation works on Windows.